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Speaker 1: Let's get right to our special guest here, the man.
Speaker 1: Yes here, we are lucky to have Will McClay. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Will for cool coming on, guys, the leader of our
Speaker 1: very much impressive, much talked about scoutary department. You guys
Speaker 1: have been on a great run of luck here. I
Speaker 1: guess not luck, but a great run of us. It's
Speaker 1: luck involved in it too. You know what's amazing is
Speaker 1: I gotta get this out of the way. Uh, And
Speaker 1: it's more about him and before we saw about anything.
Speaker 1: Tell us how important zekiels to this team? The running
Speaker 1: back Ezekiel? Are you just gonna go right there? I mean,
Speaker 1: he's extremely important because of our identity on offense is physical,
Speaker 1: our identity on defense is physical, and you got to
Speaker 1: have people that are physical if that's gonna be what
Speaker 1: you're all about, right, not only be physical, but be
Speaker 1: a different player in all three downs. Um, he's extremely
Speaker 1: important to what we do. Going back to you know,
Speaker 1: the Emmets and how the Cowboys were built. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: nobody's denying that. Okay, Okay, now let's move all. We
Speaker 1: really brought mister mcclear here to talk about this this
Speaker 1: last draft, who these players are, who he think they
Speaker 1: could be. And then we'll move from that to many
Speaker 1: camps to this because we already had a rookie camp.
Speaker 1: So you start anywhere you want on any of these
Speaker 1: players and just give us a little tit bit of
Speaker 1: what you feel good about them. I think if you
Speaker 1: just go down, you know, the first one without the
Speaker 1: first round pick is of Maria Cooper. They're not a
Speaker 1: first round pick. And now continue to say that because
Speaker 1: when you look at the draft, you have to consider
Speaker 1: that we had to consider it when making the move.
Speaker 1: You know, that's an asset, and you know you talk
Speaker 1: start talking about cap and all those other things. But
Speaker 1: a difference making player. I think we got that in
Speaker 1: the first round pick. And then when you go with Tristan,
Speaker 1: it's adding depth and quality, depth and competition to the
Speaker 1: defensive line. He is a three technique over three hundred pounds,
Speaker 1: with quickness, with length and the play temperament to fit
Speaker 1: our style, you know, Conor mc govern keep our strength strong, Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: he was there. He was available for us, and when
Speaker 1: you're looking at it, you never know what tomorrow brings.
Speaker 1: We learned that from what we went through with Travis
Speaker 1: and trying to keep that offensive line strong so that
Speaker 1: Zeke can be Zeke and Dak can be Dak and
Speaker 1: a Maria can be a mar I think we have
Speaker 1: to our approaches to get the front line right. So
Speaker 1: we did that, and then we went with Tony Pollard
Speaker 1: in the fourth round. A back that can do a
Speaker 1: lot of things. You're doing something wrong, duh, I don't go.
Speaker 1: But a guy that can do a lot of things.
Speaker 1: He can run the ball inside. We feel like he
Speaker 1: came in and he was you know, he's two hundred
Speaker 1: and nine two hundred and twelve pounds. Um can run inside, outside,
Speaker 1: play on special teams, and do all those things and
Speaker 1: has the energy. And when he came in and rookie Minicamp,
Speaker 1: he's one of those guys that it just felt like
Speaker 1: belonged in his presence when he came in there. And
Speaker 1: then you had the Jackson two we didn't get, you know, Tito,
Speaker 1: and we got Joe and Michael, both players that played
Speaker 1: in the ACC that have something to contribute to us.
Speaker 1: I think Mike has the length and the ability that
Speaker 1: coach Richard has had, you know, he's had great success with.
Speaker 1: And then Joe. When Rod went to go work out Joe,
Speaker 1: he came back saying, that guy has the right type
Speaker 1: of mentality. So when you bring that in, and then
Speaker 1: let's see who else we had. We had Joe, Mike
Speaker 1: to run down him, Draft Befause, Big Doll, Donovan Wilson
Speaker 1: in there, weber Len jils with with Donovan, we went
Speaker 1: into the deal. People were talking about we needed a
Speaker 1: safety where we took care of things in free agency
Speaker 1: to shore us up there. We feel good about our safeties.
Speaker 1: I know we won eleven twelve games with the guys
Speaker 1: that we had last year, but we always want to
Speaker 1: improve that. So we signed George I. Local. We got
Speaker 1: guys coming back from last year. And then we saw
Speaker 1: Donovan Wilson and part of the defenses. You got to
Speaker 1: have a temperament. When you watch tape on him, he's
Speaker 1: got a temperament to play the right way. That's number
Speaker 1: thirty seven. Uh. He was for for a and m
Speaker 1: he remember him in a little slot. Were the rookies
Speaker 1: well with the rookies because we didn't have numbers. It's
Speaker 1: the ability to cover. He's gonna you know, he's played
Speaker 1: some in the slot, he's played some corner, he's played safety.
Speaker 1: We're expecting him to be competing for a safety spot.
Speaker 1: But the more you can do in this NFL gives
Speaker 1: you more more variables. Uh. And then Mike Webber was
Speaker 1: another back. What we wanted to go into the draft
Speaker 1: was strengthening the running back room. Uh. He has some
Speaker 1: Zeke type traits. He runs well in our system. He
Speaker 1: thinks if we think he fits that way. And then
Speaker 1: Jalen Jelks is a guy that um again just to me,
Speaker 1: he was a guy on tape from the Senior Bowl
Speaker 1: and everything else. He played all over the place. There
Speaker 1: were some ear markings of when we watched uh DeMarcus
Speaker 1: Lawrence when we drafted him. He was in that defense.
Speaker 1: He was playing a four eye, he had to create pressure,
Speaker 1: lined up against the guard, all those things, and he
Speaker 1: played extremely hard and was produced. And I think he's
Speaker 1: got the temperament that if you got to have the
Speaker 1: right temperament to get right around Rode because he's gonna
Speaker 1: get it out of you. And I think that Jalen
Speaker 1: has that. I'm actually more impressive what you guys did
Speaker 1: in the undrafted guys. And how does that work? Is
Speaker 1: it just everybody starts hitting the phones with the connections
Speaker 1: they've made. I mean, how how are you able to
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Speaker 1: in with the Bulls. We're back. We think we're back.
Speaker 1: We're sorry about that. We couldn't hear ourselves. Apparently we
Speaker 1: never went off the air. But back to the question, Will,
Speaker 1: Like I said, I'm just impressed with how you were
Speaker 1: able to work that undrafted scene afterwards and is it
Speaker 1: just guys getting on the phones with people they know contexts?
Speaker 1: How are you able to bring in this talent? Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. We had a different process this year.
Speaker 1: We looked at the inefficiencies of last year and we
Speaker 1: had a number of guys on our board that were there.
Speaker 1: So when we started the process, the area guys now
Speaker 1: we call them the GM of their Errors or six guys,
Speaker 1: and they know all the players and the contacts there
Speaker 1: and so they established the relationships with those players We
Speaker 1: started calling probably Friday Saturday, just kind of touching base,
Speaker 1: checking in with guys, and then it was the work
Speaker 1: that the scouts had put into kind of you know,
Speaker 1: we we had exposure to a lot of these guys
Speaker 1: and we just continued to recruit them. Then we got
Speaker 1: the coaches on the phone, We figured out the money
Speaker 1: part of it and how we were going to attack it,
Speaker 1: and then we hit the ground running early on Saturday
Speaker 1: to make sure that we kind of stayed on top
Speaker 1: of it and stayed on top of guys, and then
Speaker 1: it was coaches and scouts selling the opportunity with the
Speaker 1: Cowboys and our success record with free agents is it
Speaker 1: become a situation where you know, already you got a
Speaker 1: pretty good end with like a Daniel Wise, but maybe
Speaker 1: not so much with a Jalen Jokes. So that's a guy,
Speaker 1: you know, if we're gonna get and we gotta draft him, Yes,
Speaker 1: well there's a possibility. We felt like he was a
Speaker 1: good enough player and looking at our numbers as what
Speaker 1: we had to fill within the roster and who was
Speaker 1: the best player up there and who could we get.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of things that go into that, but
Speaker 1: it was the relationship that started with Kat talking to Jalen,
Speaker 1: Jim Abrams who's now gone, those guys establishing that relationship
Speaker 1: with him early on, and we knew the guys that
Speaker 1: we felt like we wanted to get. Yeah, it just
Speaker 1: amazes me that you can talk Mitch Hyad, who was
Speaker 1: an All American clips in the National Champs, to come
Speaker 1: to here when you've already got such a loaded offensive line.
Speaker 1: But you know the advantage to that is if he
Speaker 1: comes in compete well other teams seriously, especally, if he
Speaker 1: can hold on to the to the last cut other
Speaker 1: teams was hum We know by him not being drafted,
Speaker 1: something was missing physically that people probably like, you know,
Speaker 1: but he came to the Cowboys who have a good
Speaker 1: off his line and when sometime when you get released
Speaker 1: from that situation, if he don't make the team, you
Speaker 1: know because something was missing, but maybe we can get
Speaker 1: it out of him and he makes our team, you
Speaker 1: never know, makes our practice squad and somebody will getting
Speaker 1: this kid, because I believe when you go to a
Speaker 1: good team, a solid team, team that spending a strength
Speaker 1: is offensive line play that can't even be nothing but
Speaker 1: a plus, no question. I mean That's what we do
Speaker 1: is we look at the roster after the draft, after
Speaker 1: free agency, all that stuff, and as we go into
Speaker 1: training camp, looking at the strength of the teams and saying, okay, shoot,
Speaker 1: they got six players already, right, there may be these guys,
Speaker 1: so you start studying them a little bit more. And
Speaker 1: I think for a player coming into this situation, you
Speaker 1: want to learn from the best. You want to be
Speaker 1: a part of the best. And if you're a competitor,
Speaker 1: And that's the thing that really drove me about Mitch's
Speaker 1: with all those things that we're out there, he wanted
Speaker 1: to come here in this situation. So it gives us
Speaker 1: a little insight into his personal character that he wants
Speaker 1: to compete with the best. Now, mister McClay katie did
Speaker 1: rookie mining camp last week? How did this? How as
Speaker 1: a scout and you've been the leader of these guys,
Speaker 1: that directed these guys. What give us the insight of
Speaker 1: what you do? Like now OTAs just starting soon to
Speaker 1: be a regular mini camp. What do you do? What
Speaker 1: do you do well? We're always evaluating our roster. I
Speaker 1: think the thing for us is to have a handle
Speaker 1: on what we have in the building. Look, at what
Speaker 1: is going on, Where are the strengths and weaknesses everywhere?
Speaker 1: You want to follow injuries, and it's just evaluating our
Speaker 1: roster every day. Now we get an opportunity to have
Speaker 1: the guys in our building kind of bounce around to
Speaker 1: different meeting rooms and see how the players are taking
Speaker 1: things in see if they're able to retain, do they
Speaker 1: take notes or they're serious about it. Get a good
Speaker 1: opportunity to look at some kind of off the field
Speaker 1: characteristics of the players. How well he learns, how hungry
Speaker 1: he is, is he willing to do the extra stuff.
Speaker 1: I like to watch the guys in the lunch room.
Speaker 1: You know, there's just different opportunities to observe these guys
Speaker 1: now that they're in our building. What we do is
Speaker 1: and scouting is, especially the college side. We talk to
Speaker 1: people about people and then we formulate our opinion on people.
Speaker 1: We still don't know him, so when we get him
Speaker 1: in our building, it's trying to learn these guys. What
Speaker 1: the bad If there's a bad side of having such
Speaker 1: a great draft class like twenty sixteen is now you
Speaker 1: got to pay all these guys. How much is your
Speaker 1: department involved with that aspect of it? Deciding you know,
Speaker 1: who stays, who goes, who gets paid wood, that kind
Speaker 1: of thing. I think we evaluate the players on an
Speaker 1: even plane to know where we're strong and where we're weak,
Speaker 1: where the good players are, and kind of have a
Speaker 1: barometer as to, you know, where our guys are compared
Speaker 1: to the league and looking at numbers. I'll have a
Speaker 1: little bit more conversation in that that's more done up
Speaker 1: top with those guys as far as setting the market.
Speaker 1: But we look at and we're aware of it. And
Speaker 1: the biggest key to me is if you continue to
Speaker 1: draft well, if we do good things, then the next
Speaker 1: person's going to come along and then you can make
Speaker 1: those business decisions that are right for the club as
Speaker 1: opposed to reach in or you know, doing some things
Speaker 1: that maybe put you in cat purgatory down the line.
Speaker 1: You've had some changes now in the scouting department. A
Speaker 1: couple of long times guys been in your West Coast
Speaker 1: guy Jeff Jim Abrams, he lived has that. I guess
Speaker 1: now it's a good time to make changes, I guess.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think the thing that the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: always have had is a group of people, like people
Speaker 1: know when you're with the Cowboys, you're a life or
Speaker 1: most scouts stay for a long time, and in other
Speaker 1: places it's kind of a consistent movie. Gonna mcdonne's yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: lost over one hundred years of experience to guys that
Speaker 1: know and respect very highly. Um and what they brought
Speaker 1: into the organization. Now, it's our job as a scouting
Speaker 1: department they've moved on, is to find the young guys
Speaker 1: and build them up our way and continue to grow
Speaker 1: our scouting staff. Wow, let me say this, You've got
Speaker 1: this a busy year, this time of the year. I
Speaker 1: know it's always be, but this time, YE know greatly.
Speaker 1: How's how's the family? How's everybody good? Good? Twelve or
Speaker 1: my son's twelve thirteen? Getting ready to play seventh grade football? Right,
Speaker 1: all that stuff, So everybody's good and blessed to you know,
Speaker 1: be where we are and continue to do what we do.
Speaker 1: Catch your breath a little now, A little bit, a
Speaker 1: little bit, y'all were talking about Game of Thrones in
Speaker 1: the um during the draft meetings. Everybody was giving me
Speaker 1: a hard time because I called it dungeons and dragons, Right,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't watch that stuff. Well. After the draft, I
Speaker 1: needed to do something to get away. So I started
Speaker 1: watching Game of Thrones. Yeah, yeah, I got sucked in.
Speaker 1: I got I got sucked in so much last night. No,
Speaker 1: I got sucked in so much. I'm on season eight,
Speaker 1: number four. Okay, I'm not gonna say that from the draft. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: you've watched the seasons since. I might have skipped a
Speaker 1: season because with all the names and the people, I
Speaker 1: get lost. Yeah, but the WhiteWalls it sub Yeah, he
Speaker 1: doesn't watch it, but he knows everything that goes on.
Speaker 1: You don't watch it. He claims he doesn't watch it.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say. Okay, but wife watches and he's
Speaker 1: on the couch. Yeah exactly. But became thank you. Did
Speaker 1: you have anything else for No, Well, I talked to
Speaker 1: you all day. Yeah, I know you got a lot
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Speaker 1: What to get him on here sometime and just talk
Speaker 1: like he's got an interesting background, you know, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: mister Jones and his family is if they think you
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Speaker 1: one year, had to be playoffs three or four times.
Speaker 1: So one of these days we gotta get him on
Speaker 1: and learn a bit, a little bit more. Yeah, just
Speaker 1: the life of Will because he got a big, long title.
Speaker 1: I hated asking with you. He got a big it's
Speaker 1: like director, a player personnel or something. I'm not even
Speaker 1: scouting directed this down. I'm like, man, he's the head
Speaker 1: man though. Yeah. So you ota start tomorrow, open to
Speaker 1: the media on Wednesday. You're gonna check Wednesday. Man, what
Speaker 1: I'll do? Man, I want to get men you can
Speaker 1: get together, you know, and kind of just throw some
Speaker 1: things around because you know, I won't be going to
Speaker 1: training camp this year so far, I don't think I'm
Speaker 1: going either. So they're talking about we may do the
Speaker 1: show here, That's what I'm saying. And so we bring
Speaker 1: in Shannon and then they, uh, Derek is working dealing.
Speaker 1: Thank you boy. Anyway, Uh that word that he used
Speaker 1: and get me some taking him. I like you like
Speaker 1: that dog? You like that? I did? Yeah, lead lead,
Speaker 1: Yeah it's gonna be we'll see. We're still trying to
Speaker 1: work out the plans for training camp. Man. I'm telling
Speaker 1: you what what they have done this year, and I
Speaker 1: knew this was gonna happen, is they have trimmed off
Speaker 1: the fat not and what I like large that I'm
Speaker 1: gonna hunkle fat me so so I like. Uh but
Speaker 1: and I told a lot of people They're like, man,
Speaker 1: you look discippline and said, nah, man, it's been a great,
Speaker 1: fabulous six or seven years. You know, I've been blessed.
Speaker 1: But we're gonna try to work out something because mister
Speaker 1: Eagleton I boss, he loves podcast. Yeah, and I think
Speaker 1: we did a number one rated even we ain't a
Speaker 1: number one rate. Now we're saying, yeah we award with it. Baby.
Speaker 1: We ain't got no trophies yet, but uh we're number one, right,
Speaker 1: you keep up with that scheck. Yeah we're shot here.
Speaker 1: I'll just have to be the authority on that. Thank you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll trust you. But but man, I tell you, man, uh,
Speaker 1: what are you looking forward this year? Man? What what
Speaker 1: are something just the things did you like about at
Speaker 1: this point? This was interesting and I wanted to get
Speaker 1: your take on this. One of the NFL writers at
Speaker 1: the Shine, he recently did an article column came out
Speaker 1: over the weekend about the NFL's most complete teams. He
Speaker 1: did his top nine Shines nine most complete teams. He
Speaker 1: has the Cowboys ranked sixth as the most complete team.
Speaker 1: So he's putting them up there with the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: contenders and rightfully sold because at every position we have
Speaker 1: a guy and this except maybe safety and tight end,
Speaker 1: and now that we have whip back collectively with the others,
Speaker 1: we may I like to look at the team because
Speaker 1: you don't know what your depth are your depth is
Speaker 1: until you get into the season because you lose what
Speaker 1: thirty percent of your team every year, so you don't
Speaker 1: know what your depth is like. But every player, we
Speaker 1: got a player at air position that can possibly or
Speaker 1: that will start on another team if you go through
Speaker 1: our roster. We got a cornerback. I think that all
Speaker 1: start on most teams. We got to de man, we
Speaker 1: got a thing to start on most teams. And I'm
Speaker 1: and we gotta do a three technique, which I think
Speaker 1: the league he's healthy. Yeah, I think he can start
Speaker 1: on a lot of teams, and so that's how I
Speaker 1: use Yeah, and so we got we got offensive linement.
Speaker 1: I know, we all know we're starting on eighty percent
Speaker 1: of these teams, you know. So that's how I look
Speaker 1: at that. I'm serious, That's how I look at it. Now,
Speaker 1: maybe safety and we don't know what the exhibit was
Speaker 1: gonna do. Yeah, so we don't you know at this point.
Speaker 1: But what if he grow another another year? So you
Speaker 1: gotta hope he does. You think he would? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: because next year would be his second full year of
Speaker 1: really playing ball, you know. So Jeff Heath said, bring
Speaker 1: him on. You know he's Oh I read a little
Speaker 1: bit of that, man, Jeff he said, I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you something. Man, he knows no fear. He's been to
Speaker 1: the bottom of the pile for sure, under afting free
Speaker 1: agent and a little school. It was a central something
Speaker 1: directional you Yeah, you know, I tell people when you
Speaker 1: when you jump into water, you deep, and you deep
Speaker 1: and you deep, you go deep as you can and
Speaker 1: you bought the round of bro and you finally hit
Speaker 1: that bottom and start pressing up. It's an exhilarating feeling
Speaker 1: you be like you, I'm not gonna make it. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna make it. Then you break that top, but
Speaker 1: you know what, don't still too often. Now, yeah, but
Speaker 1: you're still out there in the middle of that water,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So, yeah, gotta fight, That's right.
Speaker 1: So he broke back to the top and now you're
Speaker 1: looking over him and here hundred miles eye. So Jeff,
Speaker 1: don't even kill you, know what I'm saying. Well, here's
Speaker 1: this here's this guy, and this is one man's opinion,
Speaker 1: his most uh complete team. He's got list of the Chargers,
Speaker 1: followed by the Ram squad man the Rams across town.
Speaker 1: He said that big factor with the random girl and
Speaker 1: how he's gonna be. He's got the Cleveland Browns. Three yes, sir,
Speaker 1: this surprised me. I can't. I guess I haven't been
Speaker 1: keeping up. Brother, pull up their roster. Yeah, they either
Speaker 1: got first a second round picks, a good veteran starters,
Speaker 1: they wide sieves, or they'll Beckham the kid that they
Speaker 1: got from Miami last year, their quarterback and spending the rock.
Speaker 1: They got a good running back. The Divin's line is
Speaker 1: just nothing but young studs. That mature last year, got
Speaker 1: nice corners, money, got the corner, but they got a
Speaker 1: team full of guys Award that just need to be
Speaker 1: led the right way. Yeah, it seems weird that Cleveland
Speaker 1: talk about complete teams, teams that and that's how you
Speaker 1: gotta look at that. Can my guys possibly start somewhere else? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Who was his thirteen fourteen? The Coats they're coming man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we saw a liveing of that. Look good last year.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys that one game twenty three nothing. Chiefs are fifth,
Speaker 1: which I guess that's even even even losing a couple
Speaker 1: of players, even without Terry Kill. See their quarterback take
Speaker 1: on for a lot of that. Yeah, well quarterback best
Speaker 1: tight end the game, and they picked up Frank Clark
Speaker 1: and Darn Matthew on the right. It is. It's pretty nice.
Speaker 1: Cowboys six, he he likes. He said they're gonna be
Speaker 1: led by the run game in the defense, which I
Speaker 1: guess that's pretty standard. Everybody knows that. Saints or seventh,
Speaker 1: he says, despite Breeze being forty. Now, I don't care,
Speaker 1: I don't care. Man. He's got Chicago Bears eight, largely
Speaker 1: due to their defense and the Patriots ninth and he's
Speaker 1: playing that of course on Billichick and Brady. He said
Speaker 1: that wherever you wanted the players still what count. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can let and that you know, I tell people, man,
Speaker 1: you you can you can ride into people stop fearing you.
Speaker 1: And that whole afcast I think I got it right.
Speaker 1: The whole AC's everybody fears them, It fears you know.
Speaker 1: So if it's a close game, you gotta get out
Speaker 1: of your head. I'm just playing them sixty minutes and
Speaker 1: let the chips fall with him. Man. Yeah, you know
Speaker 1: she never felt you probably felt though that your coach
Speaker 1: gave you an advantage of Jimmy. Yeah, yes, sir, but
Speaker 1: it comes a point where you can't fear you. Coach
Speaker 1: Landrus had that same mystique. But as the players got older,
Speaker 1: you know, and as Belichick is different, he'll get he'll
Speaker 1: wash you out of that, you know, which is the
Speaker 1: right thing to do. But nobody gives their scouting department
Speaker 1: no credit. That's true, to keep replacing them with more
Speaker 1: than adequate players. And then when they see that, oh okay, okay,
Speaker 1: you help us want a Super Bowl? I left tackle.
Speaker 1: I'll swing tackle. That's here. You know, he's nothing more
Speaker 1: than a swing tackle. But they found a way by
Speaker 1: having a quarterback that we wasn't gonna stand back that
Speaker 1: new way that ball had to go and had to
Speaker 1: get and get it out, you know, make you look
Speaker 1: a little bit better than what you are. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I get coach Belichick and Tom Brady a whole lot
Speaker 1: of credit. But I think their scouting department is it's fabulous. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they must be, because they keep turning guys over and
Speaker 1: keep staying on top. He said, if you would have
Speaker 1: had a tenth there would have been the Eagles. But
Speaker 1: his bid is only nine guys, but nine teams. But
Speaker 1: he goes, there'll be a tough matchup again this year.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I give them the edge because of their coach. Really, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's won a super Bowl, that's true. I think that.
Speaker 1: I think when you've been at the top at your
Speaker 1: at your position, at your title, and you've seen it,
Speaker 1: you've experienced it, that that's a big game hunter, And
Speaker 1: if you use it right and continue and continue to
Speaker 1: remember that the players that you get, the players that
Speaker 1: fit what you do, and that you continue to have
Speaker 1: exceptional players, you can be all right as a head
Speaker 1: coach and see that that's he had exceptional year with
Speaker 1: those guys. That year he won. Now he didn't win
Speaker 1: with what most see this amazing thing about it. And
Speaker 1: this is what made me laugh about that Nick Foles
Speaker 1: was no better than that. This think he had that
Speaker 1: one member Nicko had that one super year, went the
Speaker 1: next year, got a big old contract, didn't do anything,
Speaker 1: got with the right coach, understood who he was, what
Speaker 1: he could do, surrounding him with talent. Yep, there you
Speaker 1: go and there you go. And so that's how I
Speaker 1: just laugh, like Nick Foles is so close. You know,
Speaker 1: Da is so close. But I think he's a better
Speaker 1: athlete than Nick Foles, but he stays so close. Man.
Speaker 1: So do you think that talking about coaches, that having
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore now will give the Cowboys a bigger edge
Speaker 1: in that regard? I think that if coach more implement
Speaker 1: what he does, what he said, he's gonna do variety,
Speaker 1: a live bit of variety with him with with motions
Speaker 1: and personnel, and continue to do what the Cowboys do,
Speaker 1: they'll be all right. I mean, I don't until you
Speaker 1: see a guy in the fire, you just don't know,
Speaker 1: you know. And and my thing to him is and
Speaker 1: he knows this, and uh, and I'm liking what he's saying,
Speaker 1: but he knows that when he put his game playing together,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be his game playing. Yeah. You know, and
Speaker 1: maybe one or two guys over the year may have
Speaker 1: a lib bit of input, and I'm talking about players,
Speaker 1: may have a lib bit of input. And what he
Speaker 1: does put him in the quarterback and the head coach
Speaker 1: in the quarterback coach. I'm gonna put that game playing
Speaker 1: together and at the end of the week, he gonna
Speaker 1: put this snamp on it. Yeah. Here's a stat up
Speaker 1: pound kind of surprising that, according to Pro Football Focus,
Speaker 1: the Chiefs led the NFL last year in the run
Speaker 1: pass off a run pass option how often they used
Speaker 1: to They used to twenty five percent of the time.
Speaker 1: Cowboys used at six point eight percent of the time,
Speaker 1: which one of the worst, and the fans complained they
Speaker 1: did they did more that. You gotta think that that's
Speaker 1: one reason why Moore is here. He's gonna have to
Speaker 1: trick it up a little bit. Yeah, you do what
Speaker 1: you do, man, It's still come down to execution. And
Speaker 1: you know, like I say, the formations, Man, I read
Speaker 1: something where and I heard it also on radio that
Speaker 1: you know, but I'm more important. I read it where
Speaker 1: the head coach for the Rams said I overthought the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Really, he's overthought, he's out. I looked at
Speaker 1: every Super Bowl game that the Patriots played, I looked
Speaker 1: at every playoff game I had all this time, and
Speaker 1: I just overanalyzed. I should have stayed closer to my
Speaker 1: players and what we did best. Yeah, you know, well
Speaker 1: that's what Dak was quoted the other day, and Zeke's
Speaker 1: been quoted in the past two about how Moore is
Speaker 1: seeking input from I mean, they said he's been showing
Speaker 1: command in the room, that kind of thing, which he
Speaker 1: looks like a you know, seventeen year old kid or yeah.
Speaker 1: But you know the thing about it is, you know
Speaker 1: you can listening to guys and now it's the time
Speaker 1: to get a little input during all season because when
Speaker 1: the seasons start, you ain't got time about a knocking
Speaker 1: and man, hey, coach, this is okay. I'm gonna hand
Speaker 1: you the ball and just go running. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna hand you the ball, go through it. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. But it makes it makes perfect sense
Speaker 1: that he would listen to players because he's still their age,
Speaker 1: and if he if he thinks that, I mean, if
Speaker 1: you think that a guy his age can be a
Speaker 1: good coach, then you might think that players in that
Speaker 1: age group might have something to offer to Yeah, the
Speaker 1: days of just telling the guy, hey man, we run
Speaker 1: this right here, what coach? Can we explain why? I mean, share,
Speaker 1: share your love? You know, but that's even that's got
Speaker 1: to be on a limited basis because you got to
Speaker 1: control the room or maybe twenty five thirty guys putting
Speaker 1: an offensive games. You know what I'm setting? Yeah, you got,
Speaker 1: you got because you know why this coach? Why that?
Speaker 1: Let me Let me get this out and get these
Speaker 1: plays in places, and then we will come back and
Speaker 1: be a little sport more specific. You know, they don't see.
Speaker 1: This is what people understand, even though their jobs is
Speaker 1: football and their lives is football. It's only so many
Speaker 1: hours in the day that you can actually sit down
Speaker 1: with ten or fifteen guys and explain every why you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying or does he just need to
Speaker 1: explain it to doc and leave it to doctor explain
Speaker 1: to those guys. No, No, he like I said, you
Speaker 1: can you can always. It's always a quick way to
Speaker 1: explain things. But guys that really and this is what
Speaker 1: I learned, you don't have to ask as many questions
Speaker 1: if you really trying to learn the offense and really
Speaker 1: trying to learn offense, I'm gonna know what the whole
Speaker 1: offensive line gotta do. And then and then on this
Speaker 1: protection him, I'm gonna know whether it's a three step drop,
Speaker 1: five step drop, our seven step drop. I'm gonna know
Speaker 1: because of the formation. Well, first of all, causes the
Speaker 1: play where we had on the field and in the
Speaker 1: in the protection, it's gonna tell me what's going on,
Speaker 1: you know. So if this is a longer route, the
Speaker 1: number is gonna tell him it's a longer route, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. In the situation gonna say, this
Speaker 1: is a longer route. So where where's where? Where can
Speaker 1: we be? Where can we hurt this defense? But more important,
Speaker 1: where can this defense hurt us? Yeah? You see what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So the guys that kept out, That's why
Speaker 1: Frenderick is who he is. He's not on a phenomenal,
Speaker 1: phenomenal center and athlete. He understands the whole offense. So
Speaker 1: if you understand the whole offense, the coach have to
Speaker 1: sit down there and say, Okay, this is why we
Speaker 1: do this because Senner got snapped the ball and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden the quarterback got to drop back,
Speaker 1: but he got a step with his left foot first.
Speaker 1: Is it gonna turn out to its right? You know?
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. The most guys try to
Speaker 1: learn the whole No. No, because it took me eight
Speaker 1: eight hundred years on offense. I just did my job
Speaker 1: and have fun. I want to have fun more than
Speaker 1: I want to understand why we hand zeke doesn't make
Speaker 1: a difference for a guy like a guard, but it does.
Speaker 1: It does mean you want to be the ultimate player,
Speaker 1: you know. Not some people have to learn how in
Speaker 1: the session because they don't have no athletic skills, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So they gotta have They gotta
Speaker 1: know every ankle, you know what I'm saying. But the
Speaker 1: but the nice like Troy knew the whole offense, which
Speaker 1: of course quarterback, but Michael Irvin him. Guys like that
Speaker 1: they wanted to know, you know, especially him because like man, okay,
Speaker 1: this dude of him being blocked, well, you know you
Speaker 1: can't run back there? Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: it's all about It's all about what you want as
Speaker 1: a player, as a teammate, you know. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I had a lot of fun. But as as our
Speaker 1: team got better and guys got more serious and didn't
Speaker 1: want to, you know, mess around, I got more serious
Speaker 1: and I got better. Because you don't want to be
Speaker 1: that your career, my career. You don't want to be
Speaker 1: that guy that everybody be like, oh my god, can
Speaker 1: we cut this guy? You know what I'm saying, because
Speaker 1: you don't want to hold I'm serious. You don't want
Speaker 1: to whole teams saying, man, can't we cut this guy?
Speaker 1: You know, I'm serious. Yes, that happened. Oh yeah, you
Speaker 1: see guys that are not taking it seriously. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: want to go smoke dope man. Yeah. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1: And nine time out of ten, that guy has the
Speaker 1: most ability. Everybody love him, you know, Everybody pray for
Speaker 1: him and hope for him more than he hoped for himself.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys count in that situation, now, aren't they? With Gregory? No,
Speaker 1: that's the difference. He's sick, Okay, I ain't talking about
Speaker 1: guys that that's that's he's sick. The other guy wasn't sick.
Speaker 1: The other guy's like, no, I just rather have fun
Speaker 1: and do this right here, you know. Yeah, Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: some guys. We had guys that didn't have him to
Speaker 1: do with drugs. They just wanted they off the feel
Speaker 1: like to be as big as they own the field, like,
Speaker 1: but they want to perform on the field. They didn't
Speaker 1: deserve the Yeah what came with it? Yes, he's like,
Speaker 1: we're talking a little defensive line. They were with Irving
Speaker 1: and all that, Gregor. You like what they got going
Speaker 1: now and you think they're they're deeper now and they've
Speaker 1: been in a long time. Yeah. Man, you know what
Speaker 1: if everybody stays healthy on I D line, brother, if
Speaker 1: you can't pull that up, If everybody stays healthy on
Speaker 1: our D D line, somebody gonna unexpected me may get cut.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I can see that. Yeah yeah. If everybody
Speaker 1: stays healthy, man, let's say our office and deepens the line,
Speaker 1: stay healthy through training camp, it's gonna be a lot
Speaker 1: of cut up knuckles and elbows and and broken fanger
Speaker 1: nails out there on that field. Bro. Well is the time.
Speaker 1: I mean usually they say you're gonna give a guy
Speaker 1: three years to prove himself. Yeah, you're gonna MALIEK Collins
Speaker 1: this this, this is their time to shine. Yeah, Malik's
Speaker 1: had his this is to be his fourth. Yeah like him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he stay healthy. Yes, that's what I'm saying. This
Speaker 1: is time him to shine. He's in the contract year
Speaker 1: or two. Yeah, Taco Bell do that. He's the first
Speaker 1: round pick. It's this time to shine. So they're gonna
Speaker 1: give him, you think, no matter what, they're gonna give
Speaker 1: him another another year to prove himself. Yeah. I think
Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. Training camp, everything, and this is
Speaker 1: for all players, but not so much for guys that
Speaker 1: are proving themselves. OTAs is when he go out there
Speaker 1: for OTAs, whatever Taco Chargering is doing, he got he
Speaker 1: got to be given his all and all he's gotten
Speaker 1: to try to be the best person he can be.
Speaker 1: He got to show these cowboys that what they drafted
Speaker 1: wasn't flute, right. You know. Well, I hope he's healthy.
Speaker 1: He's had two surgeries now this offseason, one on his
Speaker 1: shoulder and just had one of his ankle. Well, let's
Speaker 1: hope that's now. Let's hope that he rehab. I mean,
Speaker 1: I can't judge people by the injuries. I can't judge
Speaker 1: people how how how hurt they are. But we just
Speaker 1: paid a guy one hundred and some million dollars about
Speaker 1: sixty five guarantee that played with a bad shoulder the
Speaker 1: whole year. It's true, okay, so and I don't know.
Speaker 1: It could be a different shoulder injury for for for
Speaker 1: Taco that that did not let him perform, or an
Speaker 1: ankle that did not let him perform. But if it's injury,
Speaker 1: let it be injury. That's why Malie Collins get a
Speaker 1: second and third chance. But it don't let it be
Speaker 1: because they're questioning your your drive. Right. The one that
Speaker 1: worries me about possibly making the squad is because I
Speaker 1: think he's a great guy and it's Tyron Crawford. M No,
Speaker 1: Tyrone coming man. They I mean he's gonna be he's
Speaker 1: gonna turn thirty during the season. Yeah, he's got I
Speaker 1: mean it's pretty high paid. Yeah yeah, But you know
Speaker 1: what they ain't even talked about how every year you've
Speaker 1: heard me say they need to reconstruct, but they've never
Speaker 1: reconstructed Tyrone's contract. That's true. Why because he gives them everything.
Speaker 1: He's the Army Swiss, nice he can play across the
Speaker 1: board in a position and give you a high level
Speaker 1: of plan. Now he's not a pro bowler all star,
Speaker 1: but he gave you a high level and he's gonna
Speaker 1: be in the right place, give me everything he's got.
Speaker 1: He's big time in the room too, and yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he good man. I mean, and he's going through a
Speaker 1: lot off field of trouble, and I really, uh, I really,
Speaker 1: I really pray for him on the best. When the
Speaker 1: guy gives you what he got, what he gives you,
Speaker 1: I pray for the best one. It just worries me
Speaker 1: because you look at the young guys they brought in.
Speaker 1: I mean they brought They brought us one last two years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they brought him one of the Jackson five leftovers, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Daniel Wise. They got the Kansas. They picked up Jalen Jokes,
Speaker 1: who was free agent signing from Texas. Yeah yeah, yeah. Covington,
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, fighter from the Detroit Yea. They brought in brother.
Speaker 1: This You know, this is gonna be a training camp
Speaker 1: that they all for all of y'all that can get
Speaker 1: out there, man, all of y'all that can watch man
Speaker 1: get something, to get out there and see these cowboys
Speaker 1: because like I said, it's gonna be some scraped up
Speaker 1: knuckles and you know, and some beat up elbows and
Speaker 1: some hurt shoulders on some offense. Give his lines this
Speaker 1: year because guys will be trying to make the squad. Bro,
Speaker 1: you think you think Antoine woods from the lay down
Speaker 1: and let you take what he just did, what he
Speaker 1: just learned last year. Yeah, it's not a shot. A
Speaker 1: story on him one of the local papers about what
Speaker 1: was that? That's Antoine wood Wood jamming them up in
Speaker 1: the middle, baby, and he consumed space. Yeah, night, starticle
Speaker 1: on him in the local paper about his You know,
Speaker 1: he's in a contract here. He's got to come through.
Speaker 1: He's surprising people last year, but he may not. He
Speaker 1: may not be a surprise this year. You're where I
Speaker 1: slipped in on Wheel and he kind of agreed. Was
Speaker 1: he's that guy that can give you thirty five phenomenal
Speaker 1: plays when he starts in forty forty five. Nah No,
Speaker 1: but you give him the right up at forty better
Speaker 1: still around thirty thirty five. He gonna hurt some folks,
Speaker 1: bro over a long season. Man. They got a lot
Speaker 1: of people inside now to get through what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: The draft pick um Tristan Hills, Yeah, human three Malite
Speaker 1: college and and Tristan's gonna be fighting yeah for that,
Speaker 1: for that, for that starting three technique. But fortunate for
Speaker 1: Malite that he can play the one. Yeah, as as
Speaker 1: a rusher and a run defender. You see what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: he may have to huh. Yeah, this thing's gonna be
Speaker 1: a dog fight. Man. You're gonna see a lot of
Speaker 1: guys out there lifting the legs and kicking and scratching
Speaker 1: grass out there, baby, lifting their legs and kicking the
Speaker 1: scratching grass. Yeah, Baby, that's all there. You want to
Speaker 1: go into that further. But you know when you walk
Speaker 1: a mill dog, what they do? You know they gonna
Speaker 1: smell a spot. Take a spot, Hichael, spotting scratch grass
Speaker 1: going off? Hey, speaking of slipping things into will you
Speaker 1: try to get me in trouble with him right off
Speaker 1: the bat? Yeah? Something that talking about Zeke I like that.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I don't know, man, I just want to
Speaker 1: see the importance of Zeke. I mean, maybe if I
Speaker 1: just give you them a little subtle hits here and now,
Speaker 1: maybe you maybe you'll move up. Maybe you'll move up
Speaker 1: from that eight million year. Maybe you'll move up from
Speaker 1: the eight million years you want to get. I'd love
Speaker 1: to get Will'state probably never tell us something that he
Speaker 1: has import of this position. For that position has a
Speaker 1: lot to say about who get paid who don't they
Speaker 1: come to him for a grade? Are they trying to
Speaker 1: figure out? Like I went to him when I said, man,
Speaker 1: is they're gonna sign the marker murder back? What is
Speaker 1: your impact? He said, maybe we wouldn't looked at the
Speaker 1: film all his runs. We looked at some line. We
Speaker 1: had to make a decision that as a whole offense,
Speaker 1: the line made him better. Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So I knew when he told me that. I said,
Speaker 1: when he's sending back, you know what I'm saying. Hard
Speaker 1: look at that fumble in the Packer game. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: would never forget, will you Douglas fumbled all season? Yeah,
Speaker 1: well you can tell that the under Will. They've really
Speaker 1: stressed the lines. I forgot to ask about Dak. I
Speaker 1: forgot to ask about d Yeah. Yeah, they're Taylor outside
Speaker 1: the door there, Taylor, I don't think we're taking a break,
Speaker 1: So come on in. We already had two breaks. We
Speaker 1: had to take two quick ones a will So I was, well,
Speaker 1: it was always good. Yeah, man, I got some breaking
Speaker 1: news for y'all. Okay, breaking tay, what Taylor Stern joining us?
Speaker 1: Hey what it's like echoey. We've had issues in hearing
Speaker 1: and so just keep playing, all right. So mister Ezekiel Elliott,
Speaker 1: after we've been touting his maturity all off season, has
Speaker 1: a new video out from TMZ of him apparently getting
Speaker 1: handcuffed and getting an argument with an event staffer at
Speaker 1: EEDC Las Vegas. So limited just to the events staff. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was like him getting an argument with a woman.
Speaker 1: He didn't put his hands on her, do anything at all,
Speaker 1: but when they were trying to break up this argument,
Speaker 1: the event staffer kind of got knocked to the ground
Speaker 1: by him. It happened on Saturday, and he had his
Speaker 1: camp yesterday. I guess, Well, it's hard to know when
Speaker 1: it's events staff, so it's not There was no official
Speaker 1: it's a TMZ report, So that's why it's very loose
Speaker 1: facts here. Event staff can overreact. I'm not saying that's
Speaker 1: what happened, but no, no doubt. And it's three AM
Speaker 1: and Las Vegas like True and West sad and I
Speaker 1: moved right keep singing. But you know, beside Zeke, take,
Speaker 1: what's some good news is Jalen Smith graduating right back
Speaker 1: and made his fulfilled his promise with his mother that
Speaker 1: he told her three years ago when he left for
Speaker 1: the NFL Draft that he would come back and get
Speaker 1: his college degree. And it's a full circle moment because
Speaker 1: you know, when he left he had suffered that tragic
Speaker 1: knee injury. Most people thought he'd never you know, fulfill
Speaker 1: his NFL dreams. Now he's done that. And then yesterday
Speaker 1: when he was walking across the stage, he's not only walking,
Speaker 1: but he was dancing. So he's come a long way.
Speaker 1: Come a long way, baby, come a long way. And
Speaker 1: you guys have been around here. He's done a lot
Speaker 1: of rehab. Oh man, a few worked harder than him.
Speaker 1: He's he had a long way to come back and
Speaker 1: he's done it. It's amazing he did. And I guess
Speaker 1: that amazed me. Take. You see how he'd get excited
Speaker 1: about it daily gets about a day. But miss he
Speaker 1: misses Zeke and he probably he's probably seen h yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah it was Zeke. No No event this weekend in
Speaker 1: Vegas were you were you out there. They Stafford did
Speaker 1: look good, familiar. I was motioning with him in the
Speaker 1: dance floor there and we got a little rough. Although
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've talked about it on this
Speaker 1: podcast yet. Was that? Another breaking news is that Kurt
Speaker 1: Daniels flag football team is the hottest thing at the
Speaker 1: start in Frisco. Oh, I did hear? He scored two touchdowns.
Speaker 1: He scored two touchdowns one and an extra point. But
Speaker 1: let's tell me how many teams is it and what
Speaker 1: team you are part of? A miss take. I'm part
Speaker 1: of the Orange team. Shanning Grosses our captain, and we're
Speaker 1: pretty good. We're I know, I know he's not going
Speaker 1: to be there tomorrow, so that's rough, but um, we're
Speaker 1: doing pretty good. We had a kind of off first
Speaker 1: week to watch the film. Actually came back and did
Speaker 1: well there breaking down. I can send you the link
Speaker 1: you want to see up there, breaking down flag Football.
Speaker 1: I got one target, one catch in the first week.
Speaker 1: It's pretty intense out there. It is get competitive, that's
Speaker 1: for sure. Yeah. So Kurt's team, you can correct me
Speaker 1: if I'm wrong. But the first week they had two delakes.
Speaker 1: They were working in an event, so then they played
Speaker 1: a double header on Tuesday, which is not easy to
Speaker 1: just come out there and play people like me. But
Speaker 1: you were doing good. Yeah, we want them both. So
Speaker 1: we got no one day. He had his Harold jazzed
Speaker 1: up today and the winner Daty mccraie's on our team.
Speaker 1: And we got you know, Scott Erdman's good. It's good.
Speaker 1: We got a couple of guys that either had a
Speaker 1: chance to play in college or did and so you know,
Speaker 1: we're pretty I just have to show up. They pay
Speaker 1: attention to all those guys. I just kind of float
Speaker 1: underneath and every once in a while, is that how
Speaker 1: you got the touchdown? Soame is Doug dogs on the
Speaker 1: tam slinging it around. He helped this week because the
Speaker 1: first week he was out, and then this week Douglas
Speaker 1: and Zack Zilinger, who works in the video department, took like,
Speaker 1: did a quarterback by committee type play and it really worked. Well.
Speaker 1: That's how we scored our points. Douglas South, Yeah, he
Speaker 1: was being good. Wow off that arm. Wow man, this
Speaker 1: is all about also bad. I think you should come
Speaker 1: out tomorrow if you can. Yeah, yeah, have fun, yeall
Speaker 1: have fun hanging with the boys. I'll be so, this
Speaker 1: is my son last year of football. If it ain't
Speaker 1: professional NFL, I am not watching it. Where's your son playing?
Speaker 1: A ut sentence? An't you? I'm that son? Hurry up?
Speaker 1: I heard it? Is he? So Daniel Wise, who's a
Speaker 1: guy who they picked up undrafted free agent. He's pretty good.
Speaker 1: His older brothers Dietrich Wise who plays for the Detroit Lions,
Speaker 1: and cool. And then I heard that he has a
Speaker 1: younger brother that plays at UTSA. Wow. Cool. And his
Speaker 1: dad was a coach for the um What was Will
Speaker 1: McClay the coach of des He just said, this is
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes ago, desper it's playing flag football. Quit wow, man,
Speaker 1: Miss Bronson? Up and down? Up and down here? Yeah wow.
Speaker 1: I mean we'll see what happens. Was he that's very
Speaker 1: loose news, loose facts on Twitter? Right now? We'll see
Speaker 1: Twitter is known for that. You know that that right there? Man?
Speaker 1: I just I'm not brushing it off. But like you said,
Speaker 1: Miss t in two something grows, not grow from it.
Speaker 1: That's the thing with what we're going to see in
Speaker 1: two years when whatever happens with the CBA, is that
Speaker 1: nowadays these players have no chance to defend themselves or
Speaker 1: just say anything or to prove their point. They want
Speaker 1: to think that social media is that way. But when
Speaker 1: you have people with cell phone cameras every single place
Speaker 1: around this country, national international, they have no way to
Speaker 1: defend themselves before it's broadcasted on the internet. Well yeah,
Speaker 1: and see Mistat. That's why I tell my sons being careful.
Speaker 1: Just you being taped. Yeah, don't your hotel room, you
Speaker 1: being taped. You being taped everywhere you know, and it'll
Speaker 1: come back on you later that yeah. Yeah, So you know,
Speaker 1: Russia here we are. You know, that's how Russia used
Speaker 1: to be. I'm serious, I'm serious. Before Russia broke into
Speaker 1: the many parts that it is now, it was one dictatorship.
Speaker 1: Our dictatorship is this right here, Samsung At and t
Speaker 1: verising horizon, whoever this is us. If I want to
Speaker 1: hurt Tay, I can put cameras right across the street
Speaker 1: in front of the house and find it trying to
Speaker 1: find out everything she does outside of the house, right
Speaker 1: before she's going on house and you have the freedom
Speaker 1: and posted online. Yeah, so that's kind of what it
Speaker 1: seems like happened here. Is that Russia its Russia well ever,
Speaker 1: an assault asks her. She's no, yeah, they never watched
Speaker 1: that movie, Salt. I started Game of Thrones last night
Speaker 1: and started I started at you got any spoilers you
Speaker 1: want to throw? Will McClay did. He's on season eight
Speaker 1: where you at? I'm season one episode middle of episode three.
Speaker 1: He just gonna watch stopped, let me go. Tell Goes
Speaker 1: you ain't gonna watch. You're not gonna sustain it? She will?
Speaker 1: You're linking it if you're on episode three, you binge
Speaker 1: watched all the way? Yeah, Douglas, do you watch it?
Speaker 1: I remember? Absolutely? You know what they should do? It
Speaker 1: is like the first three They should have put out
Speaker 1: the first three seasons. Did everybody learned the characters? Who,
Speaker 1: who's playing who? And then just highlight from that from
Speaker 1: the seasons. Just have highlights, you know. It sounds like
Speaker 1: a man who loves social media right there. I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: you know, hey, if you're gonna be on now as
Speaker 1: we're getting all these people gonna do now there's no
Speaker 1: Game of Thrones, I'll tell you what. It may fall
Speaker 1: back old sports. So the books, book reading is gonna
Speaker 1: just excel through the roof. Now, how you right? What
Speaker 1: you know what's so sad is the NBA playoffs are
Speaker 1: Sorry we had the first competitive game. I'm serious. When
Speaker 1: I'm your Celtics got you talk about you talk about
Speaker 1: this close to Quentin, they would act close to Quinn.
Speaker 1: Who Who's Who's their guy again? Is Hayward? Haywards? But
Speaker 1: he came back from Andrew You talking about Kyrie ky
Speaker 1: to get out of the tower. Yeah, let him know,
Speaker 1: let him Yeah, that's what I like teams. I like
Speaker 1: my team to be competitive. And if you competitive, you
Speaker 1: have a chance to win. But when you're not competitive,
Speaker 1: well I don't what type of salent you got, You're
Speaker 1: not winning. That's why watching our flag football games is
Speaker 1: so entertaining, because we are competitive. We believe that we
Speaker 1: can win every game. But it is very competitive. You know.
Speaker 1: I don't want to name names or throw anyone under
Speaker 1: the bus on him, but there's a quarterback on a
Speaker 1: team that we've faced, and Douglas knows what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: But it was very intense and the intensity didn't really
Speaker 1: lie in competition with the other team. It lied within
Speaker 1: his own team, which was unique for me to see
Speaker 1: because for me to see that kind of competition and
Speaker 1: the excellency expected from his flag football teammates was very unique,
Speaker 1: very unique. So and now you yeah, you are you
Speaker 1: going to um be out watching some of OTAs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's nice now because it's gonna all be indoors. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think so with all the construction out there. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty pumped about that. Cool. Yeah, I am. And I'm
Speaker 1: excited to see Tony Pollard. As we were talking about
Speaker 1: running backs, can't get that savage. I know he's up there,
Speaker 1: he's up there with the Packers, but we got Randall
Speaker 1: cop getting a cop on the back of your jersey.
Speaker 1: Has there ever been a famous Stern in the NFL,
Speaker 1: like on any team? No, I don't think so. Maybe
Speaker 1: one in the NBA. There's been a Stern Burger that
Speaker 1: now plays. He played for a and m let me
Speaker 1: see I look up Stern. No, I mean there's Jordan's Sterns.
Speaker 1: There's been Newton's. There's definitely been Daniels. I don't know.
Speaker 1: You have the Chase Daniels jerseys such stern sternament and
Speaker 1: played in the twenties. No, no, I don't have any
Speaker 1: Daniel's jerseys. Sorry. I would totally do that if I
Speaker 1: had an easy last name. If I was a Smith,
Speaker 1: I'd own every Smith Jersey there was known. A man
Speaker 1: Jones is another good one about Barra clothes. There's been
Speaker 1: a Barra clone, not yet yet. It's been a beer
Speaker 1: name that. Yeah, didn't you make up beer? Where you're
Speaker 1: fell in the toilet always comes back to that. That's
Speaker 1: a miss with Doug about that. I don't miss with
Speaker 1: about two bitty thieves. But I'd never forget that because
Speaker 1: Doug is one of my perfect guys. When I think
Speaker 1: of Doug, I like perfect. So he fell in the
Speaker 1: toilets boom perfect. I'm totally gone the toilet. Who else
Speaker 1: is one of your perfect guys? Kurt? No, not him?
Speaker 1: Around here, we were doing the list He's going to
Speaker 1: Heaven and Kurt was on that rock. Phillips was on
Speaker 1: that no man, that acid rock and heaven medal. I
Speaker 1: don't know they'd make bang him out of up. No no, no, no,
Speaker 1: Like you ever get in trouble in school, Kurt, like
Speaker 1: ever get suspended or detention suspended. But you know I
Speaker 1: got sent to the office a couple of times here
Speaker 1: for what reason? He was talking mainly this guy. It happened. Actually,
Speaker 1: there was a guy I was talking too. He was
Speaker 1: doing most of the talk. Was his name Zeke. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you see, we'll see what happened. I got in trouble
Speaker 1: one time of middle school. Yeah. It was like I
Speaker 1: was in seventh grade and the eighth graders we're doing
Speaker 1: a ditch day, and I was friends with some of them,
Speaker 1: and they're like, just come with us. No one will
Speaker 1: notice day in middle school. In middle school, and I
Speaker 1: did grow up in New Mexico, so that might tell
Speaker 1: you a few things. And we go, we get away,
Speaker 1: We ditch for the rest of the day. I'd come
Speaker 1: back in perfect time to get picked up by my
Speaker 1: parents in the afternoon. I felt so guilty. I walked
Speaker 1: up to my dad's car in tears, telling them like,
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry, Dad. Nobody knew I had to turn
Speaker 1: myself in and do detention like summer school. No Elba
Speaker 1: do nothing wrong with tall will be the snitch. No.
Speaker 1: The eighth graders, it was like set up for them
Speaker 1: to do that, like they had a half day. And
Speaker 1: for the seventh graders, it wasn't sound terrible terrible. We
Speaker 1: literally went to a girls house and watched like movies,
Speaker 1: very lame. Dame Thrones so then I remember when it started, Well,
Speaker 1: tell you gotta take us out. Yeah, after we close
Speaker 1: it up here, anything else cleared up nothing, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do a little bit of that, all right, you got
Speaker 1: Thanks you guys, Thanks Kurt Daniels, Thank you, Nate Newton, Douglas, Barriklow,
Speaker 1: Kent Garrison, Presley Arians, and Shannon Gross for being Shannon. Will,
Speaker 1: forget about Will and Will McClay go orange team and
Speaker 1: go yellow team in flag football tomorrow. Who do You
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